Each player has a character card, booklet, and special movement cards for one of about fifty (and growing) medieval-fantasy characters. Characters can range from barbarian warriors to animated skeletons to elven archers to unicorns - even two different dragons. Booklets are traded and, as each player selects a move, a reference grid in the books determines the results (wounds, off-balance maneuvers, and so on). Combat continues until one fighter or the other expires.